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host specificity testing

Description: Host specificity testing evaluates which species an organism, often a proposed biological control agent, can attack, infect, or develop on.
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Biological Control of Weeds
1998 · Rachel E. Cruttwell McFadyen · Annual Review of Entomology · 958
N ONTARGET E FFECTS —T HE A CHILLES ' H EEL OF B IOLOGICAL C ONTROL ? Retrospective Analyses to Reduce Risk Associated with Biocontrol Introductions
2002 · S.M. Louda, R.W. Pemberton, et al. · Annual Review of Entomology · 593
A strategy for evaluating the safety of organisms for biological weed control
1974 · A. J. WAPSHERE · Annals of Applied Biology · 578
Scientific advances in the analysis of direct risks of weed biological control agents to nontarget plants
2005 · A.W. Sheppard, R.D. van Klinken, et al. · Biological Control · 186
Translating host-specificity test results into the real world: The need to harmonize the yin and yang of current testing procedures
2005 · D.T. Briese · Biological Control · 176
Is host‐specificity of weed biological control agents likely to evolve rapidly following establishment?
2002 · Rieks Dekker Van Klinken, Owain Rhys Edwards · Ecology Letters · 158
The role of pre-release efficacy assessment in selecting classical biological control agents for weeds—applying the Anna Karenina principle
2005 · Alec S. McClay, Joseph K. Balciunas · Biological Control · 144
Biological Control of Cactaceae in South Africa
2011 · I.D. Paterson, J.H. Hoffmann, et al. · African Entomology · 99
A Catalogue of the Insects, Mites and Pathogens that have been used or Rejected, or are Under Consideration, for the Biological Control of Invasive Alien Plants in South Africa
2011 · H. Klein · African Entomology · 97
Selection of non-target species for host specificity testing.
2006 · U. Kuhlmann, U. Schaffner, et al. · CABI Publishing eBooks · 90
A global review of target impact and direct nontarget effects of classical weed biological control
2020 · Hariet L Hinz, Rachel L Winston, et al. · Current Opinion in Insect Science · 80
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Host Specificity Testing in Australasia: Towards Improved Assays for Biological Control
2000 · Australian Journal of Entomology · 74
Importation, Host Specificity Testing, Rearing and Release of Three Parasitoids of Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in Eastern Australia
1995 · C. NEALE, D. SMITH, et al. · Australian Journal of Entomology · 65
Assessing the suitability and safety of a well-known bud-galling wasp, Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae, for biological control of Acacia longifolia in Portugal
2010 · H. Marchante, H. Freitas, et al. · Biological Control · 62
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A new perspective on the selection of test plants for evaluating the host-specificity of weed biological control agents: the case of Deuterocampta quadrijuga, a potential insect control agent of Heliotropium amplexicaule
2002 · D.T Briese, A Walker · Biological Control · 60
Time-dependent Changes in the Host-acceptance Threshold of Insects: Implications for Host Specificity Testing of Candidate Biological Control Agents
2002 · Lindsay Barton Browne, Toni M. Withers · Biocontrol Science and Technology · 55
Biological Control of the Invasive WeedSchinus terebinthifolia(Brazilian Peppertree): A Review of the Project with an Update on the Proposed Agents
2016 · Gregory S. Wheeler, Fernando Mc Kay, et al. · Southeastern Naturalist · 50
Making weed biological control predictable, safer and more effective: perspectives from New Zealand
2017 · Quentin Paynter, Simon V. Fowler, et al. · BioControl · 46
Interpreting Ambiguous Results of Host-Specificity Tests in Biological Control of Weeds: Assessment of Two Leptinotarsa Species (Chrysomelidae) for the Control of Solanum elaeagnifolium (Solanaceae) in South Africa
1995 · T. Olckers, H.G. Zimmermann, et al. · Biological Control · 46
The centrifugal phylogenetic method used to select plants for host-specificity testing of weed biological control agents: can and should it be modernised?
2003 · D. T. Briese, Helen Spafford Jacob · 38
Biology and larval feeding impact of Hypena opulenta (Christoph) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): A potential biological control agent for Vincetoxicum nigrum and V. rossicum
2009 · Aaron S. Weed, R.A. Casagrande · Biological Control · 37
Successful Biological Control of Tropical Soda Apple (Solanales: Solanaceae) in Florida: A Review of Key Program Components
2014 · R. Diaz, V. Manrique, et al. · Florida Entomologist · 33
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Phytotoxins from Plant Pathogens as Potential Herbicides
1995 · Hamed K. Abbas, Stephen O. Duke · Journal of Toxicology Toxin Reviews · 32
Host-specificity of Candidate Agents for the Biological Control of Onopordum spp. Thistles in Australia: An Assessment of Testing Procedures
2002 · D.T. Briese, A. Walker, et al. · Biocontrol Science and Technology · 31
A proposal to use plant demographic data to assess potential weed biological control agents impacts on non-target plant populations
2018 · Bernd Blossey, Andrea Dávalos, et al. · BioControl · 28
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Citation count: 4,687
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